Disk archival

[Jim Leonard]

What version are YOU running?  My shareware version from the early 1990s 
clearly can't do all that you describe.

Christian Corti wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> 
>> Teledisk: works with MFM disks only, file format not published, limited
> 
> 
> Well, that's not true at all.
> 1.
> TeleDisk works fine with FM *and* MFM disks, even with mixed coding, 
> sector sizes and densities (IBM System/34 format, track 0 side 0 FM 26 
> sect., 128 bytes/sect., additional directory tracks MFM 26 sect., 256 
> bytes/sect., data tracks e.g. 8 sect.,1024 bytes/sect.), supports normal 
> and deleted address marks, will read bad sectors anyway, stores sector 
> ID fields as read (important for CBM 1581 disks with swapped head IDs) 
> and so on. TeleDisk archives and restores everything your combination of 
> FDC and FDD can do. For example I have a Multi I/O controller card with 
> an FDC that supports 128 bytes/sect. MFM. This makes it possible to 
> archive Robotron A5120 UDOS diskettes.
> 2.
> The file format has been reverse-engineered some time ago. See 
> http://www.fpns.net/willy/wteledsk.htm for more information (it's not my 
> site!).
> 
> Christian

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